“Push yourself, persevere and get out of your comfort zone: Better to be a small fish in a big bowl, even if sometimes the bowl feels like an ocean.”
Emilie's biography
As I was not ready to choose a career path right after high school, I decided to join a student exchange program in Germany. During those ten months, not only did I learn English and German, but this journey also taught me humility, perseverance, diligence and the importance of hard work. It was a life changing experience.
I really enjoyed studying mathematics, so I briefly studied Actuarial Science at Laval University. And I quickly found out it wasn’t for me. So, I decided to apply to Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. And that was it: I fell in love with programming and in 2007, I graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science!
After considering a Master’s Degree in bioinformatics, I decided to start my software development career at Cognos. I was initially hired to work on internal tools, but during my six years there I had the chance to work on broad span of projects, and on many different platforms. My work converged towards data access and data visualization.
In June of 2013, I had the opportunity to join a youthful, spirited and very dynamic company: Shopify. I truly believe that getting out of my comfort zone is the best way to stimulate personal and professional growth, and so I joined this extraordinarily talented team.
